Galway West Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Galway West shown within Ireland
Created	1937 (1937)
TDs	5
Counties	County Galway
EP constituency	North–West

Galway West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects five deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of Proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency spans the entire area of the western half of County Galway in Connacht, in the heart of the Gaeltacht, taking in the towns of Galway City, Clifden and many other areas.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 TDs 3 Elections 3.1 2007 general election 3.2 2002 general election 3.3 1977 general election 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Galway West 1937–[1]
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
9th	1937		Gerald Bartley (FF)		Seán Tubridy (FF)		Joseph Mongan (FG)	3 seats 1937–1977
10th	1938
	1940 by-election				John J. Keane (FF)
11th	1943				Eamon Corbett (FF)
12th	1944				Michael Lydon (FF)
13th	1948
14th	1951				Peadar Duignan (FF)		John Mannion, Snr (FG)
15th	1954				Johnny Geoghegan (FF)		Fintan Coogan, Snr (FG)
16th	1957
17th	1961
18th	1965		Bobby Molloy (FF)
19th	1969
20th	1973
	1975 by-election				Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (FF)
21st	1977						John Mannion, Jnr (FG)		Bill Loughnane (FF)	4 seats 1977–1981
22nd	1981						Mark Killilea, Jnr (FF)		John Donnellan (FG)		Michael D. Higgins (Lab)
23rd	1982 (Feb)						Frank Fahey (FF)
24th	1982 (Nov)										Fintan Coogan, Jnr (FG)
25th	1987		Bobby Molloy (PD)								Michael D. Higgins (Lab)
26th	1989								Pádraic McCormack (FG)
27th	1992[2]						Éamon Ó Cuív (FF)
28th	1997[3]				Frank Fahey (FF)
29th	2002[4]		Noel Grealish (PD)
30th	2007[5]

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007 general election

2007 General Election: Galway West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon Ó Cuív	9,645	17.5	1	1
	Labour Party	Michael D. Higgins	6,086	11.0	2	10
	Fine Gael	Pádraic McCormack	5,490	9.8	3	12
	Progressive Democrats	Noel Grealish	5,806	10.5	4	13
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Fahey	5,854	10.6	5	13
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Crowe	4,969	9.0	Not elected	(13)
	Fine Gael	Fidelma Healy Eames	3,904	7.1	Excluded	(11)
	Green Party	Niall Ó Brolcháin	3,026	5.5	Excluded	(9)
	Independent	Catherine Connolly	2,006	3.6	Excluded	(8)
	Progressive Democrats	Tom Welby	1,894	3.4	Excluded	(7)
	Fine Gael	Sean Kyne	1,912	3.5	Excluded	(6)
	Independent	Margaret Cox	1,718	3.1	Excluded	(5)
	Sinn Féin	Anne Marie Carroll	1,629	3.0	Excluded	(4)
	Progressive Democrats	Donal Lyons	1,168	2.1	Excluded	(2)
	Independent	Thomas King	60	0.1	Excluded	(1)

Turnout 64.2%, Seats 5, Quota 9,183

[edit] 2002 general election

2002 General Election: Galway West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon Ó Cuív	9,947	20.13	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Fahey	7,226	14.63	2	7
	Labour Party	Michael D. Higgins	5,213	10.55	3	15
	Fine Gael	Pádraic McCormack	4,760	9.63	4	13
	Progressive Democrats	Noel Grealish	2,735	5.54	5	16
	Fianna Fáil	Margaret Cox	3,269	6.62
	Green Party	Niall Ó Brolcháin	2,193	4.44
	Independent	Séamus Walsh	2,439	4.94
	Fine Gael	Michael McDonagh	2,279	4.61
	Progressive Democrats	Donal Lyons	1,935	3.92
	Sinn Féin	Daniel Callanan	1,468	2.97
	Independent	Dana Rosemary Scallon	1,677	3.39
	Progressive Democrats	Declan McDonnell	1,462	2.96
	Sinn Féin	Seán Coistealbha	1,311	2.65
	Fine Gael	Fidelma Healy Eames	1,320	2.67
	Independent	Eileen Manning	96	0.19
	Independent	Joseph Nulty	76	0.15

[edit] 1977 general election

1977 general election: Galway West
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Bobby Molloy	Fianna Fáil	7832	7902	7929	8659	8659	8659
	Máire Geoghegan-Quinn	Fianna Fáil	7575	7647	7697	8755
	Bill Loughnane	Fianna Fáil	7280	7397	7425	7784	8051	8374	8535
	Michael D. Higgins	Labour	4952	5355	5453	5503	5511	5848	5854	5858	7397
	John Mannion, Jnr	Fine Gael	4331	4363	4756	4859	4865	5360	5380	5388	8520
	Fintan Coogan, Snr	Fine Gael	3136	3191	3510	3547	3557	5332	5334	5335
	Toddie Byrne	Fine Gael	2854	2889	3072	3082	3082
	Micheál Ó Móráin	Fianna Fáil	2333	2364	2369
	Padraic McCormack	Fine Gael	1126	1138
	Anthony Coffey	Workers Party	926
Electorate=61582, Valid votes =42345, spoiled votes=284, quota=8470 [6]

[edit] See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
• List of Irish by-elections
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Oireachtas Members Database

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